>Previous thread >>54452641
Welcome to /flt/. We are always open to users of all levels, including absolute beginners.
There are four ways to try Linux, you can:
1) Install a Linux distribution on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox) for "safety purposes"
2) Use the Live ISO directly without installing anything, that way, you can get a "full Linux experience".
3) Dual-boot Linux with Windows/Mac (recommended if you want to learn more about Linux)
4) Go balls deep and overwrite everything with Linux
Before asking, please search for answers to your questions in resources.
Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly Linux Thread.
Understand that much of your software from Windows will be unavailable, although maybe WINE can make up for it.
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Resources:
>man <insert command here>
>Your friendly neighborhood search engine (searx.me, ixquick, whatever)
>https://wiki.archlinux.org/ (Most of the configurations and troubleshoots will work on various distros, including Debian)
>https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Category:GNU/Linux
>https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux
>https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/
>http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
>>54469048
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/LInux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
fuck off with your troll thread
Can someone dump the linux command infographic
Or just tell me how to print md5 sums of a file, I forgot the command.
>>54469208
???
>>54469281
ask here >>54469063
This is a troll thread.
>>54469299
How is this a troll thread? This thread was created first anyway.
>>54469348
So? It's a joke.
>>54469048
archlinux.org down for anyone else?
>>54469299
Check the timestamps, you asswipe!
>>54469469
You fool. This is the Linux general, where we discuss the kernel. The actual GNU/Linux thread has already been made.
